On 2025-01-30 at 16:24:16, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

Hi,

this issue with the reinitialization of the ref format was recently
discovered in our CI systems at GitLab, where caches contained repos
with one ref format but we tried to reinit them with a different ref
format. But turns out that the same issue also exists for the object
format, so this patch series fixes both issues.

I looked at this series and it seems reasonable.  As you mentioned,
reinitializing the repository in this way cannot possibly work in any
meaningful sense, so rejecting it is the prudent thing to do.
-- 
brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him)
Toronto, Ontario, CA